Life and career
Morris studied politics, philosophy and economics atResearch
Morris's research has focused primarily on class and urbanisation, especially relating to the formation of the middle classes in nineteenth-century Britain, especially with reference to gender, and family and property relations. His publications include: * "Voluntary Societies and British Urban Elites, 1780–1870: an analysis", ''The Historical Journal'', vol.24 (1982), pp. 95–118. * ''Class, Sect and Party. The Making of the British Middle Class: Leeds, 1820–50'' (Manchester University Press, 1990). * (ed. with W. H. Fraser) ''People and Society in Scotland'' vol. 2, 1830–1914 (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1990). * (ed. with Richard Rodger) ''The Victorian City. A Reader in British Urban History, 1820–1914'' (London: Longman, 1993). * (ed. with R. H. Trainor) ''Urban Governance. Britain and beyond since 1750'' (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Co, 2000). * (ed. with Simon Gunn) ''Identities in Space: Contested Terrains in the Western City Since 1850'' (Aldershot: Ashgate 2001). * ''Men, Women and Property in England, 1780–1870'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). * (ed. with G. Morton and B. de Vries) ''Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places'' (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006). * ''Scotland 1907: The Many Scotlands of Valentine and Sons Photographers'' (Edinburgh: Berlinn, 2007).References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Morris, Robert 1940s births Year of birth missing 2022 deaths Academics of the University of Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Oxford Fellows of the Royal Historical Society 20th-century British historians 21st-century British historians 20th-century British male writers 21st-century British male writers British male non-fiction writers